Contest Entries
St. James School White Oak
Since the theme of the collection is "go bananas" the 8th grade Leadership Council at our school decided to go with the banana theme. The homeroom that collects the most cell phones at each grade level will get the chance to throw a banana cream pie in their teacher's face. The Leadership Council students created a backdrop with gorillas and bananas on it and the teachers will stick their heads through it. During their recess time students will meet in the gym and watch their teachers get pies thrown at them.
Collected: 712 Goal: 1000
Kemps Landing Magnet School
Collected: 31 Goal: 50
St. Lawrence
Answer your call to conservation! The 4th grade students at St. Lawrence School in Cincinnati, Ohio have started to collect old and used cell phones. They came up with their own campaign slogans "Recycle A Phone To Save A Gorilla's Home" and designed their own posters. So far we have collected 52 phones! Help Us Out And Vote For Our Campaign!
Collected: 52 Goal: 100
Beechwood Independent School
Tigers Who Care, a 6th grade volunteer group from Beechwood School in Ft. Mitchell, KY, has created a campaign to collect the most cell phones. Students have made announcements each morning & afternoon and have been dressing in a gorilla costume to get students excited about donating. They come to school early each morning to collect phones in the drop off lane. Our gorilla dances, talks on his cell phone, and gives big hugs/high fives to people who donate. The students want to raise awareness about conserving gorilla habitats as well as protecting our environment.
Collected: 564 Goal: 300
West Miami Middle Community School
This Challenge was aimed at educating the school and community on the importance of recycling cell phones to reduce the need to mine Coltan. We put flyers around the school, set up a photo booth to take pictures with a Gorilla & Banana and encouraging everyone to bring their cell phones for recycling. The kids were asked to post their pictures on Facebook and collect cell phones, ear buds, and chargers. We competed through homeroom for a Banana party (with cake/ bananas and danced Gagnam style for the video). Six other elementary schools helped us. Overall, this project was educational and fun.
Collected: 300 submitted 39 pending. Goal: 300
Frametown Girl Scout Troop 8217
Our Girl Scout Troop took donated boxes and painted them. Each group of the troop, the daisys, brownies, and juniors designed their own collection boxes with printed matieral from the cincinnati zoo web site, displaying infomation about the gorrillas and what is happing to their habbit. Each box was place around our small community asking for everyone to recycle their cell phones and chargers. We hope this helps our furry friends, we know it has helped us understand the importance of recycling!
Collected: 50 Goal: 500